Early modern literature and culture, literary and critical theory, poetics and rhetoric, representations of space in literature, masculinity and gender studies, film studies

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research

I have just completed a book titled The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France. This study considers the relation between philosophies of space and literary art in the seventeenth century. Through reference to Plato's concept of chora, or the "receptacle of becoming," the creative force through which the Idea acquires material location, I propose in The Written World that we may understand space to be a foundational, originating principle of literary creation, part of the ineffable origin of literature itself.

Selected Publications:

Books

The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France. Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. University of Delaware Press, 2004. (Awarded the 2005 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies by the MLA: The Modern Language Association of America)

Representative articles

"Of Lost Islands: Affect and the New in Montaigne." Montaigne Studies 30, 1-2 (March 2018): 55-68.